{"id":49007,"count":550,"description":"Japanese Wa (\u502d, \"Japan, Japanese\", from Chinese W\u014d \u502d, Hangul Wae \uc65c) is the oldest recorded name of Japan. Chinese, Korean, and Japanese scribes regularly wrote Wa or Yamato \"Japan\" with the Chinese character \u502d until the 8th century, when the Japanese found fault with it, replacing it with \u548c \"harmony, peace, balance\".\nThe earliest textual references to Japan are in Chinese classic texts. Within the official Chinese dynastic Twenty-Four Histories, Japan is mentioned among the so-called Dongyi \u6771\u5937 \"Eastern Barbarians\". Note that the following texts are chronologically ordered by date of compilation, which does not always correspond with the sequence of Dynasties in Chinese history. In traditional Chinese units of measurement, distance is recorded in l\u01d0 \u91cc, which varied among dynastic standards, roughly equivalent to 300\u2013400 meters. Tsunoda (1951:4) cautions that great distances in thousands of l\u01d0 \"are, of course, not to be taken literally.\"\nPossibly the earliest record of W\u014d \u502d \"Japan\"...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/wa\/","name":"WA","slug":"wa","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/49007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=49007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}